On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:17 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > 2010/2/9 Adrien Bustany <[email protected]>:
[CUT] > I think, in general the idea is good, I have some concerns though. > Using the mtime, might have some undesired side effects. > E.g. a user upgrades his tracker installation say from 0.7.18 to > 0.7.19 (by either using make install or the distro package management > tools) > The mtime of the desktop files will change then. Do we really want to > reindex everything in that case? I don't think so. nod > Maybe, a more robust solution is to use hashsums for the desktop files > and a version counter. > [Extractor] > Name=Foobar extractor > MimeTypes=application/fooba > Version=1 I agree with this > Using a hashsum will ensure that we don't get spurious reindex > whenever the package is upgraded. > Consider now, that the author of the Foobar extractor has > significantly improved its extractor, and he want's to enforce a > reindex. > He'd then bump the Version counter and the hashsum would change. > > Hope this makes sense. Thoughts? Makes sense to me Cheers, Philip -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
